[clue-tech] Multiple system backups

[Chris Hirsch]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> [...]
>> Bacula had the advantage of allowing network backups without
>> generating an ssl key since it uses its own client/server software. 
>> However bacula really is geared more toward tapes and implicitly
>> requires some kind of volume management or pool.  That's ok, because
>> I figured I could enforce a max size of 2 GB on volumes, and then
>> burn them from the hard drive to DVD.
>
> I disagree that it's geared towards tape.  Obviously it has extra
> functionality that you need to use tape.  But I use it on disk and a
> pool is just a file.  Handy to break up backup files by machine but
> there's no need to go beyond the defaults.
>
I'll second that...I've used bacula for years on both USB drives and
RAID systems...not to mention tape...

While the setup (and understanding of Bacula) is initially more
difficult than the roll your own type solutions the fact that it can
scale from home to corporate level backups and is cross platform is great.


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